Seafaring officers jazz up New Year's logs with poetry and wit

Sunday, January 1, 2006

NEW ORLEANS -- In the first hours of every New Year, the nation's seafaring officers take up an endearing naval tradition: writing wordplay, doggerel and poetry in their log entries.

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